In a bid to fight back against a level of stir craziness even greater than the level they’d suffered the day before they decided action must be taken, the animation / comedy writing duo of Greg Hahn and Alan Denton have teamed up with a group of voice acting vets to produce and record Animation Under Lockdown.

Hahn told AWN, “My writing partner Alan and I were feeling a little stir crazy and frustrated by the whole Coronavirus thing. We saw there was a lot of new web content being put out, and we wanted to contribute something else that could serve as a lighthearted distraction.”

Here’s their admirable contribution to our fight against the quarantine yips…

When first considered the idea, like all reasonable people seeking validation…Hahn and Denton setup a Twitter poll. The results were overwhelming:

The ensemble was video recorded via Zoom; the voice artists recorded audio independently for higher sound quality. Hahn then edited the assembled shots and audio.

Quick question: with this whole lockdown situation happening… what if, just to make something, @ItsGregHahn & I assembled some of our favorite voice actors and staged a Zoom live reading of one of our unproduced scripts? Just for the hell of it.

According to Hahn, “The reaction so far has been amazing, except for that one thumbs down - whoever you are, we hate you! It's been a great experience! We're still not totally sure whether we'll follow up with another; since this all started as an exercise in creative anxiety and stagnation, if we get restless enough, it's entirely possible this may happen again sometime soon. Time will tell...”

Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.